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AVhatever Mr. Brandegee's collection may yield in other 

 orders, it is certainly a most careful one in this, and goes 

 far to prove that this peninsula bids fair to produce a large 

 addition to the flora of North America. 



SiMMONDSiA Californica Nutt. (in Hook. Lond. Jour. 

 Bot., 1844, p 400). This somewhat confusing plant has 

 been buffeted about between Euphorbiaceae and Buxaceat 

 constantly since its discovery, and will probably find rest 

 only in a new and intermediate order. It has been placed 

 in Euphorbiacese by Nuttall, 1844; Lindley, Baillon, Engel- 

 mann and Watson (1888), and in Buxace?e by Miiller, and 

 Watson, (1880 ) The plant has characters common to both 

 orders which seem to make it a true link between them. 

 Not having access at present to sufficient data for studying 

 the plant, we shall include it provisionally in this list. — San 

 Gregorio, February. 



Phyllanthus (§ Gomphidium) Brandegei sp. nov. An- 

 nual, erect, glabrous, branching from the base; branches 

 terete, |-3 dm. long, with short internodes. Leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, the largest 13 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, acute at 

 both ends, very short petiolate (about 1 mm. long); stipules 

 triangular subulate and hyaline at the tip. Inflorescence 

 geminate in the axils, or the male often wanting; calices 

 5, rarely 4-6 lobed, the female twice the size of the male, 

 lobes ovate-acute, or the male nearly deltoid: female flow- 

 ers peduncled, red; calyx spreading, the lobes becoming 

 ovate-spatulate in fruit; styles 3, separate to the base, bi- 

 labiate at the apex; ovary glabrous, glands as many as the 

 lobes of the calyx. Male flowers sessile, or nearly so at the 

 base of the female peduncle; lobes green, more or less del- 

 toid; stamens 3, the filaments united only at the very base; 

 glands 3, on one side of the base, somewhat crenately 

 3-lobed. Capsule subglobose, glabrous, reddish, 4 mm. in 



